At the January 2013 Golden Globes, Foster hailed her female ex-partner as "one of the deepest loves of my life'' - while denying it was a coming-out speech, saying she had done that "back in the Stone Age''.

Foster, long rumoured to be lesbian, surprised the audience that night by announcing she had a confession to make, saying she had "a sudden urge to say something that I've never really been able to air in public''.